Long Beach’s VA hospital opens new Veteran Resource Center

The VA Long Beach Healthcare System celebrated the grand opening of its new Veteran Resource Center on Tuesday, March 7 — a facility that will provide multiple services to former members of the U.S Armed Forces.

The center, 5901 E. Seventh St., will serve as a one-stop-shop for veteran services. The VA Long Beach Tibor Rubin Medical Center — named after a Garden Grove resident, Medal of Honor recipient and Holocaust survivor who died in 2015 — joins only a handful of other VA hospitals to boast on-site resource centers, according to a recent news release.

The new resource center will include a patient advocate office, a virtual health resource office and whole health services, the release said. It’ll also provide social work services, veteran benefits administration, connections to service organizations, beneficiary travel reimbursement, and release of information and medical records.

“We’re looking forward to providing a one-stop-shop for our veterans,” the VA’s deputy chief experience officer, Anthony Brown, said in the announcement, “that will bring the services they need directly to them.”

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